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How to Compartamentalize Your Life in Recovery

When everyday problems and stress tie you up in knots and threaten to derail your carefully constructed life of newly-achieved sobriety, it may help to spend a little time to sort things out. Compartmentalizing tasks, problems, even free time, can reduce the pressure you feel and make your life seem less overwhelming. In business, it’s known as time management, but compartmentalizing easily translates to any occupation or way of life that can benefit from simplification. When you compartmentalize, you separate things – tasks, issues, problems, etc. – into distinct categories, divisions or blocks.

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Relapse Warning Signs

In recovery, the old temptations to use drugs and alcohol are never very far away. Despite the great tools and coping skills you learned in treatment, you’ll come face to face with some pretty horrendous hurdles – sooner or later. While you cannot stop these thoughts and situations from occurring, you can prepare yourself by learning to recognize the warning signs that relapse may be imminent. Once you know what to look for in yourself, you can take preventive or remedial action to keep a potential for relapse from becoming a reality. Continue Reading

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Common Fears about Getting Sober

By Suzanne Kane

Whether you’re an alcoholic or alcohol-dependent and thinking about getting clean and sober, you’re bound to worry about what that kind of life would be like sans alcohol. There are commonly held fears about sobriety that should be put to rest once and for all. Here are some of the frequently heard comments about being sober.

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Easy Does It Books: The Recovery Book Store

By LeAnne Bagnall

Taking that first step is always the hardest. You can’t go wrong with seeking information, and the amount of knowledge to be learned is boundless. Easy Does It Books is that first step. This warm and welcoming corner of Belmont Heights has been providing the Long Beach community with addiction recovery literature for over 12 years.

At Easy Does It Books, there is no hush-hush about the “taboo” subject matter—alcohol and narcotics recovery, eating disorders, food addiction, sex drives, and abuse support. Its library of information will enlighten all types of readers, making them more cognizant of the tumultuous hardships caused by the human condition and turning them into self-motivated activists.

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Completed Rehab and Now You Hate Your Life? What You Can Do to Get Back on Track

You made it through the ordeal of detox, then treatment and are now in recovery. You probably had your doubts while going through the process. It may even have been worse than you could have dreamed. But you made it. Congratulations. Now, however, things don’t seem as promising as you hoped they’d be. In fact, you hate your life. It’s not fun anymore. It’s too much work. You start to think maybe you’ll go back to drinking and/or using. What can you do to stop this train before it becomes a wreck? Continue Reading